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what's up for August the best Perseid

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meteor shower in years and view all the

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current and former planets this month

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hello and welcome I'm Jane Houston Jones

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from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in

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Pasadena California August Perseid

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meteor shower peaks just after midnight

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on a moonless mid-august night it should

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put on a great show this year a good

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number of meteors should be visible near

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Perseus every night from late july

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through august 24th however you'll see

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fewer meteors before and after the peak

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look towards the familiar constellations

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Cassiopeia and Perseus in the Northeast

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they rise soon after sunset but you'll

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want to wait till they're higher in the

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sky to see the most meteors the best

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meteor watching our is 4am eastern or 1

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a.m. pacific time on the morning of

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August thirteenth when up to 100 meteors

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per hour may be visible from a dark sky

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there's also a chance to spot all the

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planets plus former planets pluto series

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vesta juno and Pallas this month but

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you'll have to observe from dusk to dawn

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start right after sunset and find

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Jupiter low on the western horizon Venus

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and Mercury will be near Jupiter but

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you'll need binoculars and a good flat

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western horizon to see them you can also

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see Venus before sunrise at the end of

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the month the asteroid Juno is also near

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mercury but will require a telescope to

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see Saturn will be easy to see a little

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higher in the southwestern sky until

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after midnight you'll need a telescope

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to track down Pluto but it's really not

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that difficult it's in the same area

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that it was last month near Sagittarius

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in the south southeast sky it's fun to

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observe Pluto over two nights and see

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its movement against the background

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stars just as clyde tombaugh did when he

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discovered it in nineteen thirty

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another dwarf planet ceres is not too

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far away from Pluto it's also in the

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constellation Sagittarius look low in

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the southeastern sky at midnight the

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asteroid pallas can be spotted in the

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constellation Hercules in the western

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sky Uranus and Neptune require a wake-up

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call early in the morning in the eastern

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sky use binoculars to spot Uranus the

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easier of the two to see look for

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Neptune in the southeast sky Neptune

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requires a telescope Vesta is in the

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constellation Cetus the whale in the

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eastern pre-dawn sky that just leaves

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Mars to round out the historical planet

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tour this month gets visible an hour

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before sunrise but you'll need

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binoculars to see it Mars observers

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you'll have plenty of time between now

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and the end of 2016 to view the red

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planet month by month it rises earlier

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and looms larger in the eyepiece you can

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learn more about NASA's journey to Mars

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New Horizons flyby of Pluto last month

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and all of NASA's missions at WWDC gov